poet. arch. [f. CALM sb. (or a.) + -Y1.]
1. Characterized by calm; tranquil, peaceful.
a. of the air, sea, etc.; of times and places.
1587. Churchyard, Worth. Wales (1876), 107. When Calmie Skyes sayth bitter stormes are past.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., II. xii. 30. A still And calmy bay.
1598. Tofte, Alba (1880), 130. A gentle calmie Winde.
1663. Cowley, Verses & Ess. (1669), 17. That Sea, where she can hardly say, Sh’ has known these twenty years one Calmy day.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XV. 511. Six calmy days and six smooth nights.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 335. All lies settled in the calmy sky.
b. fig. of thoughts, feelings, etc. (rare.)
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 256.
| But there I was, and there my calmie thoughts I fed | |
| On Natures sweete repast, as healthfull senses led. |
a. 1649. Drumm. of Hawth., Wks. (1711), 12. Sleep … Had … left me in a still and calmy mood.
2. Of or pertaining to the equatorial calms.
1818. Colebrooke, Import Colonial Corn, 156. Enabling them to hasten out of a calmy region.
